On Wednesday, November 6, the day after the historic election in which former President and now-President-Elect Donald Trump surged to victory, bringing the GOP with him and also winning the Senate, a critical House seat was held.
That is significant because it remains to be seen whether the GOP will be able to maintain its House majority or if it will lose the House and thus lose its opportunity for at least two years of change in the way Trump wants things changed, which is generally difficult in a divided national legislature.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican whose razor-thin margin of victory brings the GOP one seat closer to achieving the victory required to dominate the national government, is the set preserved. Her contest was decided by 0.2% of the vote, therefore it wasn’t called until late in the morning the next day.
The race in which Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks was able to retain her seat was not called until 10:10 a.m. EST on the 6th, when Decision Desk Headquarters contacted her and declared that she had narrowly won with 50.1% of the vote, defeating challenger Christina Bohannan, who received a mere 49.9%.